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...turn himself into a self-made common man. "Bard of the people" might be the title he has aspired to for 50 years, like Vachel Lindsay and Carl Sandburg before him. But Beecher is no folk charlatan. He has paid his dues. When he refused to sign a loyalty oath during the McCarthy era, he was fired from the faculty of San Francisco State College. The city of Birmingham, which declared May 1 John Beecher Day, was not so pleased with its native son ten years ago when, as a thoroughly participatory journalist, he was celebrating Martin Luther King...
...procedural change seemed eminently reasonable. Congressman Edward Hutchinson, senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, gave it strong support-though he has disagreed with Rodino on some other matters. "I never heard of a judicial or even a quasi-judicial proceeding," he said, "where witnesses under oath would be questioned by 38 or 40 people." But many other House Republicans were angry at Rodino, and they rebelled against their own leadership. The change would amount to "parliamentary suicide," declared Congressman David Dennis of Indiana. In the end, 120 Republicans (out of 187) opposed the rules change, and the motion fell...
Immediately Jackson called Kissinger to testify in closed session before his Senate Arms Services Subcommittee. The room crackled with acrimony. Kissinger objected to being placed under oath and felt he was being treated rudely by Jackson. At a press conference later, Kissinger made a convincing case that nothing had been agreed upon with the Soviets that was out of line with the basic treaty. But Jackson claimed that the real issue was Kissinger's penchant for handling U.S. foreign policy as he saw fit, ignoring the bureaucracy and failing to get the approval of Congress...
Both Chestnut and Joseph Johnson, an official of the Mills campaign, refused to testify under oath before the committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment against selfincrimination. Mills declared that the draft report was "distorted" and leaked "to smear me." Humphrey said the report on his campaign was "filled with innuendoes and inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect...
...intrusion on grand jury privacy. Jack Anderson published transcripts of some of the testimony given to the Watergate grand jurors. Woodward and Bernstein, desperate for new information when other sources went dry for a while, approached members of the same jury, attempting to get them to violate their oath of secrecy...